Let me start off by saying I'm not asking for or talking about upvotes.
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Upvotes are nice, they say that you liked and appreciated the work someone did.
What I'm talking about is giving a shout out to someone who gave you an idea, maybe even went into some detail for you like the comment I gave to 
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In a civilized world you thank someone for replying to a post with info that addresses a concern you expressed. If that person goes on to give you a post idea and then outlines it for you, a simple "thanks for the idea 
Instead, you whip out a quick post and lose a follower.
Continue being an ungrateful, arrogant douchebag and maybe that extra $11.56 in Steem can keep you warm during those cold Canadian nights.
While I'm at it, people should start re-evaluating those "important" people that they're following.
Sure, they may have a high reputation and their posts have big rewards.
But are they upvoting ANYONES comments, or are they upvoting comments consistently?
@pepe-papparCheck those big payout posts and see if they have the same people upvoting them and then see if you notice the same group of people upvoting their little circle of posts too.
Are they UPVOTING THE RESTEEMS OF THEIR OWN POSTS ?
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Your childish, drug addled attempts at metaphysical poetry do not impress us.
Congratulations, you've uncovered your first circle-jerk.
Steemit is supposed to reward "quality content" and the rewards these people are getting are so far out of proportion to the trivial shit they post that, sooner rather than later, people will start associating Steemit with incest.
When you discover these types of human detritus, unfollow them immediately.
I won't even suggest asking in a comment to their post who they're saving their upvotes for.
It doesn't matter, it's not going to be you.
Besides, they don't acknowledge that kind of comment anyway. They just wait for the comments of the throng of ass-kissers that keep following them to bury your comment 14 pages down.
I used this quote earlier today in a comment to a post by 
Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as "empty", "meaningless", or "dishonest", and scorn those who use them. No matter how "pure" their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best.
In light of the way that HF19 fucked up voting, a simple shout out is sometimes a good substitute for an upvote (sometimes it's a decent way to vent without depleting your VP with a flag as well).
There are some good people here: 
Sorry if you didn't make that short list but there are a lot of you and the pricks have distracted me.
The Greedy Selfish Fuckers have kept me from reading, commenting on and upvoting your posts.
If someone does something decent and you don't have a lot of VP, mention them in your post or your comment.
Something as simple as that can mean a lot, especially when you have a few bad apples who do so much damage to OUR reputation.
And if new people are at least getting mentions they might stick around long enough to figure out how this all works.
Don't be a prick or a sibling-fucker (trying to remain gender balanced there, before I would have said sister-fucker), circle jerker is so pre-HF19.